Just so stories, The Elephant’s Child, sentence 55

Then the Elephant’s Child sat down most hard and sudden; but first he was careful to say ‘Thank you’ to the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake; and next he was kind to his poor pulled nose, and wrapped it all up in cool banana leaves, and hung it in the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo to cool.

Who acts: Child · What happens: sit down, be, say, thank, pull, wrap up · To what, where: you, nose, cool banana leaves, great Limpopo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant’s Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Elephant	det
3	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Child	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Elephant	case
5	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 hard	amod
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sat	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sudden	cc
11	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hard	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 careful	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 careful	cc
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 careful	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 careful	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 careful	cop
17	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sat	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 careful	csubj
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Thank	punct
21	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 Thank	obj
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 Thank	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	34 Snake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Snake	det
26	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Snake	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Bi	punct
28	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Snake	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Python	punct
30	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Snake	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Python	punct
32	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Snake	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Rock	punct
34	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Thank	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 kind	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kind	cc
37	next	next	ADV	_	40 kind	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kind	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 kind	cop
40	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sat	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	45 nose	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 nose	nmod:poss
43	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 nose	amod
44	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 nose	amod
45	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kind	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wrapped	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 wrapped	cc
48	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 wrapped	obj
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 it	det
51	up	up	ADP	_	48 wrapped	compound:prt
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 leaves	case
53	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 leaves	amod
54	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 leaves	compound
55	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 wrapped	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 hung	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 hung	cc
58	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 hung	obj
60	in	in	ADP	_	68 Limpopo	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Limpopo	det
62	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 Limpopo	amod
63	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 green	compound
64	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 grey	punct
65	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 great	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 greasy	punct
67	greasy	greasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 great	conj
68	Limpopo	Limpopo	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 hung	obl
69	to	to	PART	_	70 cool	mark
70	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 hung	advcl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Elephant's Child				then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Child					careful, first property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank	present			you			to the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	is	past	Child					to Child's poor pulled nose; kind, next property	tree rules
6	pull	participle							vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wrap up	past	the Elephant's Child not said here	nose		cool banana leaves			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in leaf=Destination
8	hang	past	the Elephant's Child not said here	nose		the great Limpopo			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in limpopo=Destination
9	cool	to-infinitive	the Elephant's Child not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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